A Haunted Germany

Published: October 21, 1999

To the Editor:

Not far from the villa in Wannsee, Germany, where Nazi officials planned the Final Solution in 1942 is the Schloss in Potsdam, where the Allies planned for peace in 1945.

As much as the ghosts of the Nazis and their victims haunt Berlin, the spirits of Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt inhabit the forests of this Berlin suburb, infusing new generations of Germans. As Anthony Lewis asserts (column, Oct. 19), Germans speak of the ghosts that haunt them. The test is whether all their talk can lead to anti-Nazi action in the future.